Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,619 6,400 6,808
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.58% 23.00% 20.65%
As % of the General category 33.32% 35.68% 35.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,399 4,288 4,539
10th Percentile £360 £338 £367
25th Percentile £450 £417 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £788 £813 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 99 136
10th Percentile £15.75 £15.48 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.87 £19.31 £23.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.19% -16.37% +36.13%
75th Percentile £45.75 £63.75 £53.81
90th Percentile £79.35 £80.50 £70.09
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +50.19% -16.37% +36.13%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,864 17,935 19,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.75% 64.46% 58.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,270 11,341 11,818
10th Percentile £313 £276 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,164 1,008 1,016
10th Percentile £13.67 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.13 £25.15 £38.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.77% -34.35% +39.31%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.98 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +19.20% -32.93% +36.36%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,220 £585 -0.43% 4,858
North of England 0 1,336 £507 +10.16% 1,041
South East -2 743 £500 -4.76% 1,328
North West -1 671 £500 +11.11% 567
Midlands -1 619 £500 +6.61% 576
Yorkshire 0 584 £516 +5.83% 351
West Midlands 0 463 £514 +1.53% 356
South West -7 354 £550 -4.35% 593
East of England +5 222 £555 -0.22% 367
East Midlands -3 153 £500 +19.05% 220
North East -8 74 £500 +14.29% 138
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 301 (3.49%) Confluence
2 241 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 86 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 57 (0.66%) Apache
6 43 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.35%) CMS
8 25 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 23 (0.27%) SAS
10 16 (0.19%) Camunda
11 15 (0.17%) IIS
11 15 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.093%) CICS
13 7 (0.081%) WebLogic
14 6 (0.070%) Appian
14 6 (0.070%) Ethereum
14 6 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.058%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.058%) WordPress
16 4 (0.046%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 477 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 195 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 178 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 140 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 75 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.093%) Trello
9 7 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.081%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.046%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.046%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.046%) Sketch
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
13 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 330 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 115 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
3 104 (1.21%) NetSuite
4 97 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 85 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
6 72 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
7 63 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
8 57 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
9 47 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
9 47 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 38 (0.44%) SAP FI
11 35 (0.41%) Workday HCM
12 34 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
13 32 (0.37%) Aladdin
14 31 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
15 27 (0.31%) SAP CO
16 26 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
17 23 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
18 22 (0.26%) SAP BRIM
18 22 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,402 (16.27%) Azure
2 955 (11.08%) AWS
3 610 (7.08%) Power Platform
4 467 (5.42%) GCP
5 320 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
6 294 (3.41%) GitHub
7 289 (3.35%) SaaS
8 286 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
9 227 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 209 (2.42%) Entra ID
11 192 (2.23%) Snowflake
12 140 (1.62%) Serverless
13 126 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
14 117 (1.36%) dbt
15 113 (1.31%) Power Automate
16 110 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 107 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
18 103 (1.20%) Amazon S3
19 101 (1.17%) OCI
20 93 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 157 (1.82%) Firewall
2 141 (1.64%) Network Security
3 100 (1.16%) VPN
4 79 (0.92%) DNS
5 54 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 48 (0.56%) DHCP
7 47 (0.55%) WAN
8 41 (0.48%) BGP
9 37 (0.43%) SSL
10 34 (0.39%) VLAN
11 32 (0.37%) Multicast
12 28 (0.32%) Wireless
13 26 (0.30%) LAN
13 26 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.29%) HTTP
15 22 (0.26%) OSPF
15 22 (0.26%) SAN
16 21 (0.24%) Internet
17 14 (0.16%) Broadband
17 14 (0.16%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 504 (5.85%) Power BI
2 261 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 235 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 170 (1.97%) Metadata
5 146 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 118 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 117 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
8 104 (1.21%) Tableau
9 74 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 67 (0.78%) Oracle Database
11 66 (0.77%) BigQuery
12 59 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
13 58 (0.67%) MongoDB
14 55 (0.64%) Delta Lake
14 55 (0.64%) Power Query
15 45 (0.52%) Big Data
16 44 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
17 39 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
18 35 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 33 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 598 (6.94%) JIRA
2 253 (2.94%) Git
3 157 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 102 (1.18%) GitLab
5 53 (0.61%) Selenium
6 47 (0.55%) JUnit
7 35 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 31 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.34%) REST Assured
10 28 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 27 (0.31%) Maven
12 26 (0.30%) Claude Code
12 26 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 24 (0.28%) ERwin
14 23 (0.27%) Gradle
15 21 (0.24%) Cypress.io
16 19 (0.22%) Postman
17 18 (0.21%) Zephyr
18 17 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 2,690 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 1,806 (20.95%) Banking
3 1,260 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 439 (5.09%) Public Sector
5 433 (5.02%) Legal
6 366 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
7 348 (4.04%) Retail
8 340 (3.94%) Investment Banking
9 307 (3.56%) Front Office
10 300 (3.48%) Financial Institution
11 291 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
12 186 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 183 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
14 166 (1.93%) Manufacturing
15 154 (1.79%) General Ledger
15 154 (1.79%) Marketing
16 144 (1.67%) Billing
17 141 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
18 139 (1.61%) Local Government
19 133 (1.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,260 (14.62%) Analyst
2 963 (11.17%) Senior
3 891 (10.34%) Lead
4 853 (9.90%) Developer
5 758 (8.79%) Architect
6 627 (7.27%) Business Analyst
7 602 (6.98%) Project Manager
8 571 (6.62%) Consultant
9 284 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
10 276 (3.20%) Data Engineer
11 230 (2.67%) Financial Analyst
12 205 (2.38%) Senior Manager
13 177 (2.05%) Data Analyst
14 174 (2.02%) Java Developer
15 173 (2.01%) Senior Developer
16 171 (1.98%) IT Manager
17 169 (1.96%) Programme Manager
18 165 (1.91%) Accountant
19 163 (1.89%) Finance Manager
20 143 (1.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (3.78%) Terraform
2 319 (3.70%) REST
3 256 (2.97%) .NET
4 222 (2.58%) Kafka
4 222 (2.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 221 (2.56%) React
6 167 (1.94%) Spring
7 164 (1.90%) Spring Boot
8 159 (1.84%) Middleware
9 136 (1.58%) PySpark
10 116 (1.35%) RESTful
11 83 (0.96%) OAuth
12 82 (0.95%) XML
13 81 (0.94%) JSON
14 77 (0.89%) Redux
15 71 (0.82%) SOAP
16 70 (0.81%) AngularJS
16 70 (0.81%) Node.js
17 66 (0.77%) HTML
18 62 (0.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 475 (5.51%) Onboarding
2 451 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 388 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 240 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 221 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 212 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 175 (2.03%) Virtual Team
8 173 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 166 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
10 163 (1.89%) AI Agents
11 158 (1.83%) Derivative
12 153 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 150 (1.74%) Data Centre
14 124 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
15 117 (1.36%) Fixed Income
15 117 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
16 103 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
17 99 (1.15%) Equities
18 96 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
19 90 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 346 (4.01%) Windows
2 269 (3.12%) Linux
3 137 (1.59%) Unix
4 77 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 40 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 36 (0.42%) Android
9 31 (0.36%) Solaris
10 28 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 28 (0.32%) zOS
11 11 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.12%) AIX
13 8 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.093%) VMS
14 6 (0.070%) HPUX
14 6 (0.070%) SUSE
15 4 (0.046%) CentOS
15 4 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.035%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,270 (26.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,812 (21.02%) Agile
3 1,173 (13.61%) Migration
4 1,161 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
5 1,119 (12.98%) AI
6 1,069 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,012 (11.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 978 (11.35%) CI/CD
9 907 (10.52%) Analytics
10 902 (10.47%) DevOps
11 849 (9.85%) Decision-Making
12 838 (9.72%) ERP
13 781 (9.06%) Roadmaps
14 748 (8.68%) Validation
15 705 (8.18%) Project Management
16 674 (7.82%) Data Modelling
17 663 (7.69%) Change Management
18 656 (7.61%) User Acceptance Testing
19 604 (7.01%) Business Intelligence
20 600 (6.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,187 (13.77%) SQL
2 1,068 (12.39%) Python
3 560 (6.50%) Java
4 341 (3.96%) C#
5 265 (3.07%) PowerShell
6 229 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 202 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 129 (1.50%) Bash
9 100 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 83 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 63 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 63 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 62 (0.72%) C++
13 56 (0.65%) Bicep
14 44 (0.51%) Korn
15 39 (0.45%) Go
16 37 (0.43%) VBA
17 36 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 35 (0.41%) Scala
19 33 (0.38%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 690 (8.01%) Security Cleared
2 661 (7.67%) Degree
3 494 (5.73%) SC Cleared
4 244 (2.83%) PMP
5 212 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 199 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 185 (2.15%) ACCA
8 161 (1.87%) CIMA
9 141 (1.64%) CISSP
10 128 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 122 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 105 (1.22%) Azure Certification
13 79 (0.92%) CISM
14 78 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
15 67 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 60 (0.70%) AWS Certification
17 49 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
18 44 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 44 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 35 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 620 (7.19%) Data Quality
2 377 (4.37%) QA
3 331 (3.84%) PMO
4 206 (2.39%) GDPR
5 135 (1.57%) NIST
6 112 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 99 (1.15%) GRC
8 98 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 91 (1.06%) IFRS
10 81 (0.94%) SLA
11 66 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 53 (0.61%) ISO 20022
13 48 (0.56%) GAAP
14 38 (0.44%) PCI DSS
15 35 (0.41%) Solvency II
16 31 (0.36%) SEPA
17 26 (0.30%) COBIT
18 25 (0.29%) MiFID
19 20 (0.23%) SOC 2
20 19 (0.22%) EMIR
System Software
1 240 (2.78%) Docker
2 223 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 75 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.21%) RACF
6 17 (0.20%) vSphere
7 14 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.12%) NFS
10 8 (0.093%) IAG
11 6 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.046%) ACF2
13 4 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.035%) GPFS
14 3 (0.035%) GridGain
14 3 (0.035%) KVM
15 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 402 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 154 (1.79%) Ansible
3 86 (1.00%) Grafana
4 73 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 63 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 63 (0.73%) SCCM
6 54 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.30%) Control-M
7 26 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.17%) Argo
10 14 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
11 11 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.13%) Puppet
12 10 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 10 (0.12%) Packer
12 10 (0.12%) vRealize
13 9 (0.10%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.10%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.093%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,272 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 749 (8.69%) Oracle
3 674 (7.82%) SAP
4 330 (3.83%) ServiceNow
5 321 (3.72%) Databricks
6 220 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 192 (2.23%) Google
8 149 (1.73%) IBM
9 123 (1.43%) VMware
10 114 (1.32%) Workday
11 108 (1.25%) Cisco
12 106 (1.23%) Splunk
13 79 (0.92%) CyberArk
14 76 (0.88%) OpenAI
15 65 (0.75%) Ariba
16 56 (0.65%) Bloomberg
17 52 (0.60%) Citrix
18 49 (0.57%) Murex
19 45 (0.52%) Sage
20 44 (0.51%) Red Hat